The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-04-28
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OVERLOOKING IHhEE-1 LAh Jill LII
Few horses at three years old are
solid enough to put in at hard work,
though some Percherons at this age
have size and weight to do a good deal
without injury. They should lever
be worked with others of the same or
nearly the same age, but put beside an
old horse careful and steady enough.
Enough work may be got out of them
the year they are three years old to
pay for their keep. In the long run
it will be better not to try to get o
than this from them at this age.
ERECTING ICEHOUsEs.
While a good ice supply is a neces-
1sity to an extensive dairyman, it is
we'll worth it's cost to any farmer. The
material for the icehouse may be of
the cheapest character, and the build
ing of it is SO simple that it can be
done by any farmer at all handy with
tools. The work Of filing comes at a
time when men and teams would be
idle. The money saved by keeping
meat, butter and vegetables from
spelling will, in most farmers families,
pay as good interest on cost as any in
vestment that can be made.
UNHEALTHFUL MILK.
No one would think of using milk
from a COW that was in any way dis
eased. In fact, if a milking animal is
really sick it shows a progress of the
disease which the milk and other secre-
tons are unable. to carry off. Very
frequently the unhealthful conditions
in the COW are thus removed while the
cow herself is not affected. Just here
comes in the evil of giving mich COWS
impure water or mouldy food. The
evil effects of these are found almost
Immediately in the milk, which is thus
made unfit to this extent for food.
COWS AFTER NARROWING.
After a cow has dropped her calf
she will be naturally somewhat feverish
and inclined to drink a great deal.
Care should be taken to warm all drink
given until the calf is at least a week
old. She should have laxative cooling
food, and if it is not in the season for
grass, a thin slop made from bran with
tepid water is the best thing she can
have. This is very stimulating to
milk production, and if the udders
show signs of infaming, draw down the
milk thoroughly several times a day,
taking every drop that the calf leaves.
SCATTERING MANURE ~DROPPINGs.
The pasturing system increases fer
tility more slowly than is generally
supposed, and one reason for this is
that the excrement from stock is
usually left in heaps as it falls, where
it dries up and does comparatively
little good. One Of the last jobs in
the fall should be to go over the fields
where cattle or horses have run in
summer and pound to pieces the heaps
of excrement left everywhere. If
there is a chance after this to 60 over
the field with drag or smoothing har-
tage.
Ows WITH PIGS.
No hog is quite SO ravenous as a SOW
that is sucking a lot of young pigs.
The incessant drain on her sharpens
her appetite amazingly, and yet she
will grow thin while eating perhaps
twice what she could fatten on without
the pigs. But no food eve given to
a hog is so we'll we'll invested as what
is fed to a SOW sucking her young.
At first the'sows food should be milk
and bran, but after the pigs are a
week old some cornmeal may be added
with no fear hat she will grow to fat.
The pigs will get all the fat and growth
it contains.
MANURE FoR EARLY VEGETABLES.
1t is difficult to make early-sown
plants grow rapidly, though the weather
may be apparently warn enough.
The soil remains cold after the air
is heated, and therefore does not de-
velop nitrogen as it does later in the
season. There may be enough manure
in the soil of gardens, but early in the
spring it is not available plant food.
A very small dose of nitrate of soda
which can now be got cheaply, will pay
those growing early vegetables, though
for later gardening the needed nitro
genous manures may be obtained at
less expense.
ASHES FOR CLOVER.
1t is we'll known that clover is a
great consumer of lime, and for this
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